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When I came home today, there was a stack of letters by the mailboxes in our apartment building. The fake-hand-written underlining caught my...

When the supermarket circular arrived in the mail, I flipped to the back page and noticed two great deals: the red peppers and the ginger. T...

I've seen Stephen Eichhorn 's work several times at my sister-in-law's events in Chicago. Check it out. I particularly like the ...

Justin Taylor quotes a paragraph of analysis of Brian McLaren's ahistoricism . I don't know if I like the word, but ahistoricism is...

I was very gratified to see that Matt Casper, one of the coauthors of Jim and Casper Go to Church, commented on the post below. Click here ...

So today is apparently National Pie Day. It's a sure sign of a made-up holiday when they have to put "National" in front of it...

In my last post , I argued that there is no reason to believe that God is uninterested in small things. To argue, even in jest, that he'...

So I'm finally reading Blue Like Jazz, Donald Miller's collection of "Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality." Th...

Ok, in order to blog about this, I have to admit that I read a story about Princess Diana. Further confession: I got up in the middle of the...

To restate a sentiment expressed in a previous post (and to utilize a banished idiom), CDs are the new tapes. Their day is past. Mark Steyn ...

Timewaster of the day : I played this game last night until the little swarming dots danced on my closed eyelids. But tonight I have to go b...

The Chakas do not have cable. Cable is like a nice, nearby foreign country that we get away to a couple times a year. A precise, affluent, o...

I'm tired. I decided to go to work at the same time as Mrs. Chaka this morning, which meant getting up at 5:00 am and getting dropped of...